These houses were flooded up to about the second story, if they had a second story, so everything was trashed. Everything that was in there had to come out.

They said (Katrina) acted like a tornado, hit and miss. Some houses are there, and some are not.

When it's nice out, we like to take walks. We'll walk the local streets and look for shapes on houses. We'll look for triangles and squares. You'd be surprised how many that they find on the homes in the area.

They show you this, oh, here's a house here destroyed. Here's a house here destroyed. What you don't see is that neighborhood after neighborhood after neighborhood, and every single house is destroyed.

Somebody brought up the idea, what if we went to New Orleans and helped down there in reconstruction and stuff? Five minutes later, we took a vote; unanimous decision. There we go.

A large number of houses have been unroofed.